JUTH: CMD Laments Daily Resignation of Health Workers
Dr Pokop Bupwatda, the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH), says health workers in the institution are resigning daily in search of better working conditions.
He urged stakeholders in the health sector to tackle what could be responsible for the brain drain in the sector urgently during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Jos.
According to the CMD, “Daily, we see our health workers resigning in their numbers, this is a major challenge and this brain drain is alarming, I get resignations daily, it is an emergency for us.”
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Bupwatda called for easier recruitment and replacement process by agencies of government and their parastatals that are responsible for such as a result of cumbersome nature of the present process.
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“The process of recruitment should be made easy to replace workers leaving the Nigeria health sector because workers on the ground are overwhelmed.
“It is salient to replace the workers leaving to avoid a human resource gap and to ensure that the health workers replacing the workers who resign can understudy them before their exit,” he said.
He assured the government that if the process of recruitment was made easier for the hospitals, such wouldn’t be abused.
He attributed the brain drain experienced in the health sector to health workers craving better working conditions.
